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	christexaport	2009-09-23 , 00:44
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Originally Posted by brendan

i make no assertion of knowledge on the following:

my kid bro has an HTC WinMo phone and has been able to flash it with different ROMs, that can activate "different radios" as he put it. He currently has Sprint as his provider, but his "radio settings" are what Verizon considers optimal. He says that the signal and coverage are better with these settings.

Would such a feature be able to get me true 3G access, or would i be stuck with some half-assed access? besides i thought all the rest of the world was ahead of the states in the mobile market and 3G was everywhere else, and we were lagging behind. seems to me that the GSM access would be better in most other places, than in the states.

He's referring to the activation of the 800 or 850 MHz radio, which was deactivated on some branded WinMo devices. I thought maybe I could do the same for my N95-1, and quickly learned about all that stuff done by the great xda developers. You can unlock frequencies already present, but not add any.

As for the settings, that refers to the data compression done via the device. Certain carriers use different settings to keep the network running smooth and keeping bandwidth as open as possible. He may be using a less or more compressed setting to make things seem faster. But Nokia is known for having good network optimization out of the box, and the Symbian OS maturity is part of that.

So just know that no hackery can make the N900 work on at&t. There's a Chinese guy that manually does it by adding the proper radios, but I haven't tried it, and who wants to send his baby away that far?

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